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How We Know a Family: The Comparative Method

How linguists know that languages are related: cognates, sound laws, reconstruction, the ten branches, and the scholarly dispute over dates.

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Part 1: The method Part 2: Words that match Part 3: The family Part 4: Trees and dates Part 5: Language, genes and Persian

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